Pen and Paper

Today was the pen and paper round for the National Science Challenge. 50 something teams, top 11 + 1 wild-card team go to the quarter finals.

Their auditorium is so nice :) Orange and black is awesome :D

The questions were....... unusual. What is the S.I. unit for the Boltzmann constant? I don't even know what in the world is a Boltzmann. How many picometers make one Angstrom? I haven't a clue what a picometer or an Angstrom is. What does an otolaryngologist do?

The halfway through it turned into a maths paper. So that was very bad for me.

Most of it was physics and maths. Only about 2 bio questions out of the total of 60.

Scoring is,

Correct answer, +4 pts

Wrong answer, -2 pts

No answer, -1 pts

Then was a short recess. So went and walked around. Dean drank soy sauce on its own. Um..... yuck?

Results were announced at 12. So we went back to the auditorium. I was nervous as hell. 

We are in :)

Hwa Chong is out already, unless they get into the wildcard team, which was not announced today.

So 12 teams are in the quarter finals. There are 4 episodes. Each episode has 3 teams. So time to draw lots and see who gets who. 

We are against Xinmin and....... Raffles. Uh Oh. I wonder if they put us against RI on purpose because they want to watch the sparks fly...... maybe the draw was rigged XD

The sparks will fly. ACS will be the one making them.

Apparently Tanjong Katong Girls School has a reputation for screaming a lot on the previous shows XD

We can bring supporters. Awesome right? :) I want 3.8 to come, cos all of us are from 3.8 :)

Thanks so much to my team :)